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New Yorkers Appear to Foil ICE Raid Before It Begins

November 30, 2025

For the second time in just over a month, a large-scale raid by dozens of immigration agents in New York City was met with a similarly large-scale counter-protest. This time, however, the protesters thwarted the authorities’ plans before they began.

Multiple arrests were made on Saturday during scuffles on the edge of Chinatown, during which hundreds of protesters faced off with federal agents and the New York Police Department (NYPD) as they prepared to launch a raid in the area.

It comes just a month after a raid by 50 federal agents using military-style vehicles stormed Canal Street in Lower Manhattan, and was met with a protest of hundreds in response.

The confrontation also comes amid a reported surge in activity by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents in the city in recent weeks, despite a friendly encounter between the Mayor-elect, Zohran Mamdani, and President Donald Trump earlier this month that appeared to avert a showdown over the issue.

But the mass counter-protest of some 200 people demonstrates the challenges federal authorities will face in enforcing President Trump’s hardline immigration crackdown in a city that is rooted in its immigrant identity.

Immigration crackdowns in other cities like Chicago and Portland have been met with similar responses from locals opposed to the Trump Administration’s hardline immigration agenda, but New York could prove to be the toughest challenge yet. 

Saturday’s incident demonstrated how the city’s physical infrastructure —its narrow streets and densely populated areas, built mostly by immigrant labor over the last two centuries—can impede ICE’s so-called “enforcement surges,” which require large numbers of agents moving quickly in and out of an area.

Not only are large-scale ICE raids being met by hundreds of protesters, but in two months, New York will be led by an immigrant mayor for the first time in 50 years. Mamdani, who moved to the United States when he was seven years old, campaigned on protecting New York’s immigrant community from these very same raids.

Agitators’ in ‘goggles’

The confrontation began on Saturday, when agents from U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) gathered in a parking garage in a federal building on the edge of Chinatown in preparation for a raid.

Videos of the incident show protesters blocking the agents as they try to leave the garage in their cars. The crowd then swells to the hundreds, as more NYPD officers arrive.

Later, according to reports, federal agents emerged from the garage and assisted the NYPD in detaining protesters.

The DHS blamed “agitators” for blocking the federal agents in a statement to [news source].

“Following social media posts calling agitators to ICE’s location in New York City, individuals dressed in black clothing with backpacks, face masks, and goggles showed up and began to obstruct federal law enforcement officers including by blocking the parking garage,” the statement said. “NYPD was called and responded to hundreds of violent rioters, which resulted in the arrest of multiple agitators.”

Murad Awawdeh, President of the immigrant advocacy group the New York Immigration Coalition and a member of Mamdani’s transition team, said the protests this weekend were a sign that the city would put up fierce resistance to federal immigration operations.

“New York City is unlike any other place in this country or even the world, and what you have seen yesterday and time and again is that New Yorkers of all stripes, across all creeds, are not going to allow a rogue, lawless, violent and horrific agency to continue to mess with their neighbors.”

The attempted raid in Lower Manhattan comes amid an increase in ICE activity in New York City over the past few weeks. On Oct. 21, in a separate raid on Canal Street, nine people from Africa were taken into custody by ICE agents during what DHS called a “targeted, intelligence-driven enforcement operation…focused on criminal activity relating to selling counterfeit goods.” The raid, which involved more than 50 federal agents, also led to the arrest of five protestors after people reportedly attempted to chase federal agents away. The DHS claimed protestors were blocking vehicles and obstructing law enforcement duties.

In recent weeks, ICE agents have been spotted with greater frequency in immigrant neighborhoods of Corona in Queens, Washington Heights in Manhattan, and Sunset Park in Brooklyn.

Activists in those neighborhoods have responded to the increased ICE activity by organizing community alert systems, such as handing out whistles to be used when agents are seen in the area. The strategies resemble ICE Watch in other cities hit especially hard by Trump’s immigration crackdown, such as Chicago, where groups like Protect Rogers Park enlist community members to follow and report on ICE activity in the area.

Found on mainstream news.

NYC Thanksgiving Banner Drops

An autonomous group dropped a banner as the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade began on Central Park West in New York City today. Its message, NO THANKS FOR COLONIALISM, NO FORGIVENESS FOR GENOCIDE, hung along the route for the duration of the parade, a crack in the highly surveilled and commercialized spectacle of colonial amnesia. At the same time, across the bridge in Brooklyn, another autonomous group dropped a banner from the BQE, reading FUCK YOUR TURKEY, LAND BACK—a moment of confrontation for people driving upstate for their business-as-usual Thanksgiving celebrations. 

This land is watered by blood, and every harvest reaped is the result of genocide. Fuck Thanksgiving, a nation-wide whitewashing of the holocaust carried out by European colonizers against millions of indigenous people, in the name of a nation that gorges itself on murder and plunder every day. From Plymouth Rock to Palestine, no forgiveness for genocide. 

A banner will not weaken our enemies, but working together on actions like these can make us stronger in the protracted struggle for life free of the settler state. Far bolder action is necessary. Those who seek to end colonial and imperialist domination are honing their ability to carry out collective action in clandestinity. And they are looking for friends. Together we willdestroy this empire.

-some people

live video: https://x.com/taliaotg/status/1994041628374520237
photos below

Submitted anonymously.

tire deflation tutorial

for educational purposes only!

do not try this at home! an ice pick is faster, quieter, and easier than you might think. volume up to hear it. wear gloves. you can do this! we were scared too, we didn’t know how ’til we tried, but it’s actually very basic. you don’t have to be an anarchist. we’re just regular people sick of watching nypd and ice brutalize people, watching crowds surround a vehicle and nobody doing anything. we’ve seen reports of it done recently in chicago, north carolina, and rochester, NY. come on NYC, this is the least we can do! scared to try in broad daylight? try it at night. as always, take the appropriate precautions to cover yourself and your tracks, e.g. see the shoe prints in the snow? don’t do that, toss the shoes if you do.

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At least 11 police vehicles vandalized outside NYPD precinct in Queens

November 12, 2025

At least 11 police vehicles were vandalized while parked at a precinct in Queens on Monday night.

It happened outside the 116th Precinct just before 11:30 p.m. near North Conduit Avenue and 244th Street.

The damaged cars were both marked and unmarked.

It appears that someone threw rocks or objects through the vehicle windows.

The result was smashed windshields, back windows and broken mirrors.

The crime was brazen as multiple cameras are posted outside of the precinct.

The precinct is fairly new and opened a few years ago with a new community center.

“Hopefully they figure out who did it so it doesn’t happen again, because if they feel comfortable enough to vandalize the cars, who is to say they won’t vandalize the precinct next,” a neighbor said.

___

November 14, 2025

[Name] was arrested in Queens on Tuesday night in connection with the vandalized vehicles, the NYPD said. [Name] was charged with reckless endangerment, 14 counts of criminal mischief, two counts of possession of a weapon and resisting arrest.

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Indonesia: Defendants in the “Chaos Star” network case face up to 20 years in prison

received October 25, 2025

After the mass revolts in August 2025, where a large section of the
population rose up and attacked the state’s basic corruption and
inequality, 44 anarchist comrades are imprisoned at the West Java
paramilitary police compound in Bandung. There is no access for anyone
but the families, and even this is minimal. The detainees have been cut
off and they are being used in a mainstream media manipulation campaign
by the Indonesian state. Many of the imprisoned comrades are very young.
They are all accused of being part of the individualist-nihilist “Chaos
Star” network, which is a fabrication created by the police for the
purpose of their prosecution. The police claim that the imprisoned
comrades were radicalised by ‘Leaders’ and funded by foreign anarchist
organisations. The cops point to the existence of banners, flags, books,
pamphlets and music, which is in the possession of the detainees, as
commonly held items denotative of membership of this “Chaos Star”
organisation.

Some of the comrades are accused of serious direct actions such as
molotov attacks, arson, riot, property destruction, etc. Lastly some of
the comrades are accused of instigation, either online, for their blogs
or social medias or for their ‘prominent’ role. They are isolated in the
paramilitary compound and the Legal Aid Institute (LBH) in Bandung has
been blocked from representing them. An option is to hire a private
lawyer but that would cost tens of millions (rupiah). We ask for
heightened attention to this dangerous situation. Torture and abuse are
being widely used on the detainees, confirmed by the families. The young
comrades were injured and hurt until they gave false confessions that
they were even at the demonstrations and/or part of specific
organisations, as they were subjected to the brutality of the
paramilitary police. This is a known fact and a reality that we have to
confront. In the wake of the insurrection across Indonesia against the
right-wing ex-military Prabowo Subianto, the young people and the
anarchist movement has been severely repressed by the regime. Many young
people have been caught up in the police assaults and regardless of
their supposed “guilt” or “non-guilt”, we extend our solidarity with
them, and to all those who struggle against social oppression, prisons,
police and the state.

We are publishing the names of our imprisoned comrades and the prison
address of the West Java paramilitary police compound where our friends
are held. Let’s not leave these comrades alone and let’s send them
solidarity letters, postcards and our message of fire. Even if the
solidarity post is stolen and blocked by the administrators of abuse,
they will know that we will hold them all responsible for what is taking
place in Bandung. Let’s shine a light on what the hated police torturers
and regime of Prabowo Subianto are doing to our young comrades, and
where it is taking place and by whom, and let’s fight back against the
police and all prisons everywhere.

ABC/Palang Hitam

West java paramilitary police compound address:

(NAME OF DETAINEE)
Jl. Soekarno Hatta No.748,
Cimenerang, Kec. Gedebage,
Kota Bandung,
Jawa Barat 40292,
Indonesia



LIST ONE

A. Names of the comrades suspected of general crimes:

Name : Aditya Dwi Laksana (A.d)

Name : Mochamad Naufal (M.n)

Name : Gregorius Hugo (G.h)

Name : Rizki Mahardika (R.m)

Name : Herdi Supriyadi (H.s)

Name : Rizalussolihin Alias Jalus .(R.s)

Name : Rhexcy Fauzi Kunaidi (R.f.k)

Name : Tubagus Andika Pradita (T.a.p)

Name : Muhamad Jihar Fawak (M.j.f)

Name : Angga Wijaya (A.w)

Name : Muhamad Subhan (M.s)

Name : Eli Yana (E.y)

Name : Muhamad Vansa Alfarisi (M.v.a)

Name : Muhamad Sulaeman (M.s)

Name : Muhamad Rifa Aditya (M.r.a).

Name : Veri Kurniawan Kusuma (V.k.k)

Name : Joy Erlando Pandiangan (J.e.p)

Name : Muhamad Jalaludin Mukhlis (M.j.m).

Name : Jatnika Alang Ramdani Septiawan (J.a.r.s).

Name : Ariel Octa Dwiyan (A.o.d).

Name : Angga Friansyah (A.f).

Name : Putra Riswan Anas (P.r.a).

Name : Zanief Albani Yusuf (Z.a.y).

Name : Wanda Abdurrahman (W.a).

Name : Wawan Hermawan (W.h).

Name : Reyhan Fauzan Akbar (R.f.a)

LIST TWO

B. Cyber Crime Suspects:

Name : Arfa Febrianto Bin Dodo Sujana (A.f)

Name : Rifal Zhafran Bin Rohman Maulanarifal Zhafran Bin Rohman Maulana
(R.z)

Name : Muhibuddin Bin Maemun (M.d)

Name : Muhammad Zaki Bin Bambang Priono (M.z)

Name : Arya Yudha. (A.y).

Name : Azriel Agung Maulana Als Gama Bin Jabidin. (A.a)

Name : Rifa Rahnabila Bin M Suparman ( R.r)

Name : Marshall Andy Kaswara Bin Nandang Koeswara (M.a.k)

Name : Yusuf Miraj Bin Tata Rohmana (Y.m)

Name : Moch Sidik Als Acil (M.s)

Name : Deni Ruhiat Als Deni Sumargo Bin Rudik (D.r)

Name : Cheiza Bin Tatang Hernayadi (C.z / Anak)

Name : Rizky Fauzi Als Arab Bin Hasan (R.f)

Name : Muhammad Ainun Komarullah (M.a.k)

Muhammad is accused of being an Instagram Admin of @Blackbloczone and
Website Https://blackbloczone.noblogs.org/ .

Name : Andi Muh. Ashabulfirdaus (A.f)

Andi is accused of being an Instagram Admin of Blackbloczone.

Name : Dana Ditya Pratama (D.d)

Dana is accused of being an Instagram Admin of Blackbloczone and Account
Owner of E-wallet

LIST THREE

C. Suspected Leadership role:

Name: Reyhard Rumbayan

Eat was arrested in Makassar on 23 September 2025. Eat had previously
been in prison for a FAI-IRF attack against a bank in solidarity with
injured anarchist comrade Luciano Tortuga in Chile, 2011. Eat has been
accused of a leadership role within the “Chaos Star” network and leader
of the anarchist rioters. Eat is in solitary isolation and isn’t allowed
to meet anyone. Eat had a pre-trial hearing on 16th October and Eat’s
investigation period extends to 20 November 2020. Eat has serious health
conditions and has paralysis in his arm after a motorbike accident some
years ago where one other comrade died. Eat needs ongoing medical care.

Name: Bima Satria Putra

Bima is an anarchist imprisoned for 10 kilos of cannabis who is known
for his prisoner’s union project, translations and writings since he was
jailed in 2021. Bima has been transferred from Palembang City detention
centre to Bandung, where the 43 “Chaos Star” network defendants are all
held. It’s unclear what charges have been brought against him due to the
general lack of information. Most likely, instigation, and ascribing a
leadership role due to his public writings. However, Bima is not part of
any individualist/nihilist anarchist network or any egoist cell.

The charges against the all suspects include violations of Articles 187
and/or 170 and/or 406, and/or Article 1 (1) of the Emergency Law No. 12
of 1951, with a maximum prison sentence of up to 20 years.

Additionally, they may be charged under Article 45a (2) in conjunction
with Article 28 (2) of Law No. 1 of 2024, which amends Law No. 11 of
2008 on Electronic Information and Transactions (ITE), and/or Article
170 of the Penal Code, and/or Article 406 of the Penal Code, and/or
Article 66 of Law No. 24 of 2009 on the National Flag, Language,
Emblems, and National Anthem. The punishment could be up to 6 years in
prison.

For provocation, they can also be charged under Article 45a (2) in
conjunction with Article 28 (2) of Law No. 1 of 2024, which amends Law
No. 11 of 2008 on ITE, with a maximum sentence of 6 years and/or a fine
of up to IDR 1,000,000,000 (one billion rupiah).

Submitted anonymously.